Cee Sales Planning

**Job description**
With more than 3.500 employees, the Safilo Group is a worldwide leader in the premium eyewear sector for sunglasses, optical frames and sports eyewear. With an international presence through 30 owned subsidiaries in primary markets - in America, Europe and Asia - and exclusive distributors, Safilo produces and distributes its home brands such as Polaroid, Carrera, Smith and the licensed brands such as BOSS, Hugo, Carolina Herrera, Tommy Hilfiger, Fossil, Kate Spade, Marc Jacobs, Pierre Cardin, Moschino, Levi’s, Missoni.

**CEE Sales Planning & Analysis Coordinator**will be the key responsible person within Safilo Central European team for maintaining and constant improving of the sales planning, forecasting and sales execution processes across all the countries of the Region.

**Key Accountabilities**:
In your role as CEE Sales Planning & Analysis Coordinator you are fully involved into the business from day one, entrusted with the following areas of responsibility:

- Active involvement in delivering the Region’s monthly, quarterly and annual business targets by acting as the regional **Sales Execution owner**:

- Weekly Regional Orderbook consolidation and analysis
- Weekly Sales Forecast submission
- Key contact person for the countries’ Commercial managers and Sales Operations coordinators regarding goods availability and KA customer supply plans in constant collaboration with Customer Service Team Leader
- **Ownership of CEE sales planning process** in cooperation with sales, marketing and finance based on historical data and information on prospective promo actions and sales events.
- Monthly Sales Plan elaboration for the following countries: Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Czech republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and CEE countries with distributors’ coverage.
- Coordination of Russia timely and accurate SP submission
- Consolidating full regional Sales Plan and submission to BPC tool
- Leading monthly SP alignment meetings with the countries’ leadership teams and CEE & North Commercial officer
- Acting as **regional Demand planning expert**:

- Responsible for ABC ranking volumes plan for novelties and Ranking accuracy tracking
- Regular assortment analysis to support commercial decision making: customer selections, samples provisions, etc.
- Functional controlling of Russian Local stock planning and consumption
- Support and coordinate development of **joint business planning with key retail partners**
- Act as **commercial analytics expert for CEE community**:

- Key user of global analytical tools: Tableau, BW Analysis
- Coordinate requests or initiate new regular Tableau dashboards creation
- Support CEE Commercial Teams with regular and ad hoc analysis: brand productivity and overlap, customer analysis, teams performance, etc.

**Other Information** Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Supply Chain Management, or a related field is required. A Master’s degree is a plus.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in sales planning, demand planning, sales operations, or financial analysis, preferably within the consumer goods, fashion, or eyewear industry.
- Proven experience in forecasting, budgeting, and sales analysis.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Strong proficiency in data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
- Fluency in English and Italian is required. Fluency in Russian or another CEE language is a strong advantage.
- Experience coordinating or managing a remote team is a plus.
- Cultural sensitivity and ability to work effectively with diverse teams across different countries.

Job Reference: BPO01102